We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

President-elect [Donald] Trump's ambassador to Israel is further to the right than almost anyone in Israel, further to the right than Bibi Netanyahu on the settlements, and almost opposes the two-state solution, doesn't he?